So I bust out of the tourny and decide to get a room so i can sleep for a while (and sleep again that nite). I crash until about 8 then shower and head down to the poker room. I play a mixture of 2/5 and 5/10 until 5AM.
One interesting hand at 2/5. I open EP with AA to $25 and Im called by one player to my left. The flop comes 8
6
3
. I bet $35 he calls. The turn comes a 9. I bet $70 he raises to $150. Kinda weird but for such a small raise I dont think I can fold. So I call. The river comes another 3 (great card for me) and I didn't really know what to do (lead out vs check/call) bc I thought he'd check behind a lot of 2 pair or pair and draw hands here that he might call down with. I wound up c/c ing although I'd be interested to here others opinions.
I sat next to (insert name) the guy I mentioned above that had the nice hand with Hachem on TV in the 06 WSOP. Great read on Hachem's betting saying that pre or postflop whenever hachem had the nuts or close to it (i.e AA or KK pre or close to the nut post) he'd bet or raise in a small fashion, but when he had a good but not nut hand he'd bet or raise larger. Blinds were 1k/2k, There was an open to 6k and Hachem reraised to 22k. The guy said that he put Hachem on TT or JJ bc of his larger reraise. HE said with AA or KK Hachem would have made it something like 16k. Bc of this he thought there was a big chance he'd laydown to a 4 bet, but if not he thought he was racing (and was ready to race for a big stack if Hachem managed to call) (they were already in the money I believe?). Turns out his read of "not aces or kings" was correct, but hachem had AKs but layed it down anyway --- AQ was folded face up and Hachem steamed.
Guy shared a few more stories from that year and the year b4... interesting -- cool guy.
Made $1700 and went to bed.
Woke up showered and went to my car to head down to the borgata to play the super satty at 11.... i get into my car and look at the schedule and see that while every tourny is at 11 all week this one is at 10! So I missed it.
Oh well -- headed home Sat afternoon good trip